Find the Best Splash Pads in Ottawa
“We should have a celebration when we finish all one hundred splash pads,” said Mommy as we drove out towards four splash pads.
We’re trying to keep our eye on the prize. We’ve almost visited every single splash pad in Ottawa. After today, we’ll have finished 70 splashpad reviews.
“We could do thirty in a week.”
Maybe. It’s only taken us two summers to get this far…
Our three year old daughter is singing along to the acoustic version of Laurie Berkner’s My Family. read more
We’ve got twelve splash pads to write about.
Twelve.
Nine from our tour of Orleans splash parks and three others from this afternoon.
“You can write them when I sleep, okay?” comments our three year old compadre.
So, here we are. Mommy and Daddy trying to catch up on documenting our adventures while our little one complains about not being able to fall asleep. Ironic.
“What are we going to do when we finish splash pads?” asks our little girl.
I dunno. Revisit the best splash parks? Move onto play structures (No.) read more
We finally finished off the last of the Orleans splash pads.
Nine splash pads, two days, and only four wooden posts. (We thought there would be more.)
There are more than nine splash pads in Orleans, but this is all that we had left to do for our Ottawa splash pad directory.
“It’s not a real park,” said our three year old as we drove away from the splash pad at Champagne Park. “It has a train and a house.”
I suppose that’s one of the downsides of visiting so many splash pads and play structures. You get a sense of what’s out there. read more
“We could totally do 6 splash pads this afternoon. We just spend 10 minutes at each one.”
Maybe. We’ll see.
Someone left a comment on our website asking for more information about the splash pad at Bandmaster so we decided to hit a couple of splash pads on the west side. We were hoping to get them all, but our three year old daughter got a little tired, so we’ll have to come back.
The splash pad at Billy Bishop park is simple and nice. The park is named after WWI Air Marshal William “Billy” Bishop. read more
“Just so you know, I’m going to do the Roy Park review first,” says Mommy after we got back from visiting two new splash pads that aren’t on any list of Ottawa splashpads (yet). “It’s a wooden post… with a twist”
I guess you could say that the splash park at Roy Park was a wooden post splash park that surprised us. (I guess Mommy was right: sometimes wooden post splash pads do surprise us.)
Normally it’s just a block of wood with a button. Push the button and water sprays out of the sides. read more
“Excuse me, guys. Can we listen to Laurie Berkner?”
So begins our morning trip to the grocery store. Daddy is busy trying to catch up with our splashpad adventure stories in the car. We’re hoping to get out to Kanata later this weekend.
(A reader had commented wondering if we had any info on the splash pad at Bandmaster. Not yet, but we will soon!)
At the time of writing, there are a few splash parks in the city that aren’t listed on the city of Ottawa website (or in their open data catalogue), so we decided to check them out on Thursday and add them to our photo gallery. read more